dramatic
Valid in Scrabble
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- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
Definition of dramatic
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of or relating to the drama.
“Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord.”
“The Orestea is in effect one great single tragedy in three separate parts, each with its own dramatic purpose, yet harmonized by a common inspiration—three great acts of a drama, simple but complex; the whole, as its component members, showing unity of action in rise, crisis, and fall, and progressing in a series of like orderly stages toward a definite dramatic goal.”
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adj
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Of or relating to the drama.
“Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord.”
“The Orestea is in effect one great single tragedy in three separate parts, each with its own dramatic purpose, yet harmonized by a common inspiration—three great acts of a drama, simple but complex; the whole, as its component members, showing unity of action in rise, crisis, and fall, and progressing in a series of like orderly stages toward a definite dramatic goal.”
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Striking in appearance or effect.
“a dramatic view of the Alps”
“Each year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine bring ever more dramatic confirmation of what common sense told us all along-that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was: a very young, very small, dependent, vulnerable member of the human family.”
“Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade.”
“Johns Hopkins laying off more than 2,000 workers after dramatic cut in USAID funding […] Daniels warned in the message that the dramatic cut in USAID funding will result in “impacts to budgets, personnel, and programs.””
- Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
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(informal)Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
“You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek δρᾰ́ω (drắō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek…
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Etymology tree Ancient Greek δρᾰ́ω (drắō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós)lbor. English dramatic Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós), from δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós). By surface analysis, drama + -tic.
Words you can make from dramatic
113 playable · top: AMTRAC (10 pts)
Best play amtrac 10 points6-letter words
7 words5-letter words
19 words4-letter words
38 words- CAMI 8 pts
- CRAM 8 pts
- MARC 8 pts
- MICA 8 pts
- ACID 7 pts
- AMID 7 pts
- CADI 7 pts
- CAID 7 pts
- CARD 7 pts
- DRAM 7 pts
- MAID 7 pts
- ACAI 6 pts
- ACTA 6 pts
- AMIA 6 pts
- AMIR 6 pts
- ATMA 6 pts
- CART 6 pts
- CRIA 6 pts
- CRIT 6 pts
- MAAR 6 pts
- MAIR 6 pts
- MARA 6 pts
- MART 6 pts
- RAMI 6 pts
- TRAM 6 pts
- TRIM 6 pts
- ADIT 5 pts
- ARID 5 pts
- DART 5 pts
- DATA 5 pts
- DIRT 5 pts
- DITA 5 pts
- DRAT 5 pts
- RAID 5 pts
- TRAD 5 pts
- AIRT 4 pts
- ARIA 4 pts
- RAIA 4 pts
3-letter words
35 words- CAM 7 pts
- MAC 7 pts
- MIC 7 pts
- CAD 6 pts
- DAM 6 pts
- DIM 6 pts
- MAD 6 pts
- MID 6 pts
- ACT 5 pts
- AIM 5 pts
- AMA 5 pts
- AMI 5 pts
- ARC 5 pts
- ARM 5 pts
- CAR 5 pts
- CAT 5 pts
- MAR 5 pts
- MAT 5 pts
- MIR 5 pts
- RAM 5 pts
- RIM 5 pts
- TAM 5 pts
- TIC 5 pts
- AID 4 pts
- DIT 4 pts
- RAD 4 pts
- RID 4 pts
- TAD 4 pts
- AIR 3 pts
- AIT 3 pts
- ART 3 pts
- RAI 3 pts
- RAT 3 pts
- RIA 3 pts
- TAR 3 pts
2-letter words
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